Job Identification: 6183
Industry: Management & Executive Leadership Sector
Education Level: Bachelor's Degree
Job Schedule: Full-time
Location: Uganda
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and maintain data security controls such as data classification, labelling, encryption, and data loss prevention (DLP) across systems, applications, and cloud platforms.
- Develop and maintain data security policies, standards, procedures, and Minimum-Security Configuration Baseline Standards in line with industry best practices and regulatory requirements.
- Ensure compliance with applicable regulations and frameworks (e.g., Kenya Data Protection Act, ISO 27001, GDPR, and/or other relevant standards).
- Collaborate with the Cybersecurity Intelligence and Security Operations Centre (CISOC) in the continuous monitoring and defense of the Bank’s infrastructure against cybersecurity threats.
- Support secure adoption of new technologies, applications, and platforms to ensure cybersecurity requirements are met before introduction to production environments.
- Lead the end-to-end vulnerability management lifecycle for databases and datastores by executing assessments across cloud and on-premises infrastructure, performing risk-based prioritization, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to remediate and continuously report on compliance.
- Support cybersecurity risk assessments and remediation by leveraging technical knowledge to remediate gaps identified by assurance teams such as Information Risk and Audit teams.
- Support internal and external audits related to data security and privacy.
- Continuously research and provide technical expertise across the different business and technical functions, conduct data security awareness and user training sessions across the group.
Qualification Requirements
- BSc. IT / Computer Science or related field
- SC-401: Information Protection Administrator Associate
- CISA: Certified Information
- CEH: Certified Ethical Hacker;
- CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor;
- CISM: Certified Information Security Manager
- CISSP: Certified Information Systems Security Professional
- SSCP: Systems Security Certified Practitioner;
- CompTIA Security+
- Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP)
- SC-900: Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals, CyberOps Professional, Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
- Oracle Database certifications in either OCP/ Oracle Database Security
- Microsoft Database certifications such as MCDBA
Deadline: 17th July 2026
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